Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[John Summerfied]

Ian Malone wrote:

>> Interesting. Can they update from a USB memory stick, too? My only 
>> reason for installing floppy drives these days is to permit BIOS updates.
>>
> 
> I'm pretty sure it can't. As I've just mentioned in another post it is
> a few years old, so that might be possible now. On the other hand it
> sounds like Gigabyte have stopped using it (or at least don't use it
> on every MB).
> 

Mt most recent Gigabyte mobo requires Windows. I've blackballed Gigabyte.

My Acer Aspire does it from CD: the BIOS update comes as a bootable 
image (I think with bits of W98 in it).


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